SPRINGFIELD,OHIO G.A.MILLER RARE PURPLE MILK BOTTLE
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's a very scarce early milk bottle which I am certain is from Springfield,Ohio. It is embossed G.A.MILLER (in large bold letters in circle slug plate) ONE PINT above that......Deep purple color....round....7"tall.....A dug bottle with haze, but Excellent Condition with no chips or damage. I dug this G.A.Miller milk bottle in Springfield,Ohio from a 1900-1920 outhouse pit. I have dug a couple other G.A.Miller milk bottles t in Springfield also, so I'm sure that's w the G.A.Miller Dairy was located. The beautiful amethyst or purple color of this glass is a result of the presence of manganese in the glass, which was a decolorizer to turn the glass clear. Most of the manganese used in glass factories came from Germany, so when WW1 broke out in 1914, it became much harder to obtain manganese. Other oxide decolorizers were then used instead, so most bottles made after 1918 or so donâe(tm)t turn amethyst. Glass that contains manganese, when exposed to ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, causes the glass to turn amethyst. Some of my amethyst bottles and glass are purpled from years of exposure to natural sunlight. Others have been purpled with the use of strong UV lights in a boxâe¦and some have been purpled by a process called âeoeirradiationâe, which is a safe and permanent process which does the same thing as many
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